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I was in Hiroshima in April, and of course it's a very modern town. I went to the Peace Dome and found myself sobbing. Then I went to the museum and that was even harder. Yes, yes, I tell this story and invariably get, "You do know how vicious and brutal the Japanese were with their atrocities?"
I do, but when you watch a video in the museum of a man start crying 75 years later while recounting his sister's death and having to cremate her when he was10 years old, (" It takes a long time, her head took the longest) it's a bit hard to handle. I am tearing up telling this.
There was a man playing a flute across the canal from the Peace Dome, you got the feeling this was a regular thing, and you could hear him for a pretty wide radius, then he went and gonged the peace bell, as did I. The mallet has an atomic symbol engraved upon it at the end.
One thing I learned is that since the bomb over Hiroshima detonated in the air, the radiation did not seep into the ground and the radiation dissipated much faster than you'd expect.
It's a very haunted city though, (and despite being a big urban center, sorta quiet) at least to me. No matter where you go - a park, a shopping area, there are always stories of unidentified bodies found there after the bomb.
And I thought "Grave of the Fireflies" was hard ...
Edited by Edward Aycock on 06 August 2026 at 4:26pm
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